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How many working days in year 1960?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1960 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1960.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 1960
2. Australia Day : Tuesday, 26 January, 1960
3. Canberra Day : Monday, 14 March, 1960
4. Good Friday : Friday, 15 April, 1960
5. Easter Monday : Monday, 18 April, 1960
6. Anzac Day : Monday, 25 April, 1960
7. King's Birthday : Monday, 13 June, 1960
8. Labour Day : Monday, 3 October, 1960
9. Christmas Day Observance : Monday, 26 December, 1960
10. Boxing Day Observance : Tuesday, 27 December, 1960

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Easter Saturday : Saturday, 16 April, 1960
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 17 April, 1960
3. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 1960